The Senior Engineering Manager will lead a team to standardize and improve backend technology stacks, ensuring high-quality app development with a focus on security and performance. Responsibilities include managing and growing engineering teams, overseeing technical roadmaps, and driving the adoption of services across the company.
The Stacks team is dedicated to standardizing and improving the backend technology stacks at Atlassian, with a focus on Java, Node.js, Python, and Golang. Our mission is to provide a robust, secure, and developer-friendly platform that enables teams to build high-quality apps at scale. We are the center of excellence for engineering standards. If you are passionate about technology with deep expertise in Java, Node or other supported stacks and want to help drive forward the state of the art for all of Atlassian, we would love to have you on the team.
What we do:
Our goal:
To make it effortless for Atlassian teams to build, deploy, and operate backend services by providing a comprehensive, standardized, and secure stack - so developers can focus on delivering value to customers.
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
What we do:
- Deliver and maintain Golden Images for all supported tech stacks, ensuring secure and reliable base images for app development.
- Define and enforce standards for Java and Node.js stacks, collaborating with working groups to formalize best practices.
- Build and support platform frameworks, libraries and tools tailored for Atlassian
- Drive adoption of secure, compliant, and efficient development workflows, including FedRAMP-compliant solutions and CIS controls.
- Continuously improve the developer experience for microservice developers
Our goal:
To make it effortless for Atlassian teams to build, deploy, and operate backend services by providing a comprehensive, standardized, and secure stack - so developers can focus on delivering value to customers.
- Lead, hire, and grow a team of high-performing engineers, including technical leaders.
- Guide the technical roadmap for scaling and evolving services, working with leaders across the organization and Principal Engineers/Architects.
- Accountable for reliability, security, performance, and scale of all the services you own.
- Drive adoption of your team's services across the company.
- Drive cultural change through technical excellence, quality, and efficiency.
- Support teams in delivering large projects with complex dependencies and multiple
Basic Qualifications
- Proven track record of delivering projects on time, in scope, and within quality goals in an Agile environment.
- 5+ years managing and growing engineering teams
- Experience providing feedback and coaching to engineers and technical leaders.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience building SaaS software with a focus on operational excellence and reliability.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with scalable, high-performance, highly available systems.
- Strong understanding of using metrics to guide technical and business decisions.
- Familiarity with security, privacy, or compliance systems is a plus
- Experience structuring and coaching teams for success and cross-functional collaboration.
- Ability to build trusted advisor relationships with senior business and technical leaders.
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
Top Skills
Go
Java
Node.js
Python
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